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50 Cent Offers New York’s Socialist Mayoral Candidate Six Figures to Flee the
City
50 Cent wants to keep Zohran Mamdani out of da club
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The high-profile rapper offered the socialist New York City mayoral candidate
over a quarter of a million dollars to leave the Big Apple on Wednesday, writing
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feeling” Mamdani’s plan to increase taxes on the city’s wealthiest citizens.
“Where did he come from?” 50 Cent asked. “Whose friend is this? I’m not
feeling this plan. No.I will give him $258,750 and a first class one-way ticket
away from NY.”
The post came in response to Mamdani specifically mentioning the hip-hop star
during an interview onThe Breakfast Club, saying he knows “if 50 Cent is
listening, he’s not going to be happy about this. He tends to not like this tax
policy.” That prediction hit the nail on the head.Read more.
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Violent Egyptian Deported After Kicking Border Patrol Beagle
Freddie is a 25-pound beagle working for US Customs and Border Protection at
Washington’s Dulles Airport. He seems like a very good boy.
The same cannot be said about Egyptian man Hamed Ramadan Bayoumy Aly Marie.
According to authorities, Marie kicked Freddie like a soccer ball earlier this
week when the on-duty sniffer detected over 100 pounds of prohibited food
products in his luggage.
The incident unfolded on Tuesday when the dog alerted his handler to Marie’s
travel bag, which he had just brought from Cairo. Marie responded by kicking
Freddie “so hard that he was lifted off of the ground," giving him rib
contusions and prompting an emergency trip to the vet. Images from the assault
show the dog on his hind legs and mid-air with his ears standing up after
absorbing the blow.
Marie made a court appearance on Wednesday, during which a judge ordered him
to pay Freddie’s veterinarian bill. Border Patrol put him on a flight back to
Egypt yesterday. Get ‘em out.Read more.
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Trump Announces Signing of New U.S.-China Trade Deal
America’s war with Iran appears under control. So does its trade war with
China.
Donald Trump announced the signing of a new U.S.-China trade deal on Thursday,
saying the two nations agreed to its terms with little fanfare the previous
day. The Chinese confirmed the agreement’s completion early this morning.
Under the new arrangement, China will review and approve export applications
for items subject to export control rules, while the U.S. will cancel a range
of existing restrictive measures imposed against Beijing. This could open the
door for U.S. to acquire Chinese rare earth minerals.Read more.
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June Tariff Revenue Shatters All-Time Record
$9.6 billion. $17.4 billion. $22 billion.
That’s how much tariff revenue the federal government collected in March,
April, and May, respectively.
This month? It’s already made more than $26 billion.
The most recent measure of government receipts for "Customs and Certain
Excise Taxes" revealed that figure earlier this week, continuing America’s
collections spike during Donald Trump’s second term. Take a look atthis chart
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for a jarring visual representation.
Since the start of this fiscal year, the federal government has raked in over
$121 billion in tariff income. The Congressional Budget Office projects that
the United States could reduce primary deficits by $2.8 trillion over the
coming decade, as long as the next president keeps Trump’s levies in place.Read
more.
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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Planned Parenthood Defunding
The Supreme Court handed America’s pro-life coalition a major victory on
Thursday, rebuking an attempt to prevent South Carolina from eliminating
Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood clinics.
The decision is the result of the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
case, which centered around South Carolina’s blocking of Medicaid funding for
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. The organization said the move violated
federal law, arguing that Medicaid patients have the right to sue to choose
their qualified healthcare provider. The Court disagreed.
Rather than addressing states’ rights to defund groups like Planned
Parenthood, the justices ruled that the typical redress for such a violation
would be for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to withhold Medicaid
funding from the state, not for an individual to file a lawsuit.
“Private plaintiffs to sue for violations of federal spending-power statutes
only in ‘atypical’ situations … where the provision in question ‘clear[ly]’ and
‘unambiguous[ly]’ confers an individual ‘right,’" Neil Gorsuch wrote in the
majority opinion, ruling that the law in question in the present case "is not
such a statute."Read more.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Claims “Victory” After U.S. Nuclear Strikes
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his first public address since America’s
bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities on Thursday, claiming the episode
represented a victory for his country and a “slap in the face” to the United
States.
“The Islamic Republic emerged victorious and, in return, delivered a harsh
slap to America’s face,” Khamenei said after over a week of silence. "The
Americans failed to achieve anything significant in their attack on nuclear
facilities,” he added, while saying the U.S. “gained nothing from this war” and
only entered it to prevent Israel from being “completely destroyed.”
Everyday Americans definitively understanding the true status of Iran’s
nuclear program may ultimately prove unfeasible. TheCIA
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claims the project is “severely damaged,” but aleaked Defense Intelligence
Agency assessment
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says the strikes may have only delayed it by a few months.
Regardless of the true result of the assault, there is no doubt that
Washington’s deranged war hawk caucus will continue to push for a prolonged
armed conflict with Iran. The president did the right thing this week by
telling the neocons that America’s military is done engaging. We hope he stays
that course.Read more.
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“I’m 60, Y’all”: Michelle Obama Blames Age for Perceived Marital Problems
For months, many people have speculated that the Obamas could be heading for a
divorce. Michelle refusing to join Barack at Jimmy Carter’s funeral and Donald
Trump’s inauguration made those conversations inevitable.
The former first lady addressed the swirling divorce rumors this week,
claiming the reason she and her husband are rarely photographed together is
because they’retoo washed up.
“It’s like, ‘OK, so we don’t Instagram every minute of our lives. We are 60.
We’re 60, y’all,'” she said on NPR’s “Wild Card” podcast. “You just are not
gonna know what we’re doing every minute of the day.”
She also claimed her “ambition,” not marital issues, fueled her decisions to
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instead of attending the Carter funeral. “Ambitious” is hardly the word that
comes to mind.Read more.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Surfing Dogs Catch Waves in California
Huntington Beach, California, held its “Incredible Dog Challenge surf contest”
last week, featuring K9s ranging from ages 2 to 13 barreling through the
Pacific’s waves in pursuit of a claim to four-legged surfing immortality. If
such a spectacle strikes you as some sort of joke, think again.
“They are treated like pro athletes,” one dog owner said of the competitors.
“I mean, we have kind of like a workout schedule to prepare them for this.”
The competition’s champions included Koa, a cancer-survivor pup from Carlsbad,
CA, and Petey, a local West Highland Terrier. Petey won the small-dog division.
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See photos from the event here.
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Armed 64-Year-Old Woman Blocks Highway in Lawn Chair
You never know what you might encounter on the highway.
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Drivers in Texas stumbled across a different kind of surprise on Thursday, as
a 64-year-old woman pulled out a lawn chair and a gun and made herself
comfortable in the middle of Interstate 45 outside of Houston.
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The near-senior citizen’s bizarre sit-in sparked an hours-long standoff with
police before her eventual surrender, highlighted by her refusal to comply with
law enforcement’s commands and repeated suicidal gestures. The ordeal began
when she appeared to intentionally crash into the back of an 18-wheeler. The
incident caused no injuries.Read more.
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Commentary
Pop a Bottle
Happy anniversary, America.
This may come as a surprise, but it has officially been one calendar year
since the presidential debate that ended Joe Biden’s career. At this time 365
days ago, the majority of Americans still expected the dazed and confused
politician to claim his party’s 2024 nomination, defying precedent by becoming
the first commander in chief who couldn’t be trusted to successfully execute a
grocery run to compete for a second term.
You know what happened next
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space. Mumbles. Incoherent ramblings. And a total and complete panic inside the
Democrat Party. Looking back, Donald Trump doing anything other than winning in
an Electoral College landslide seems impossible. His first opponent couldn’t
talk, and his secondwasn’t much better
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thanks to hysterical media lies about the Republican nominee and multiple
attempts on his life, the election’s outcome felt completely up in the air.
Now that we’re five months into the 47th president’s term, a look back at the
Biden debate debacle offers some important perspective. Has Donald Trump been a
perfect leader? Of course not. No human could be. But we are very lucky that
he, and not either of the nauseating alternatives, is representing our country
in the White House.
Thanks to Trump, the United States has a secure border, NATO members are
finally committing to contribute to the alliance, DEI is gone, and foreign
handouts are considerably more under control. Would any of that be the case
under a Harris administration? Of course not. We’d probably have Spanish as a
co-official national language,every month would be Pride Month, and U.S. troops
could be on the ground in Ukraine. And that’s not to mention the Oval Office
cackling we would’ve had to deal with. America’s earplug industry would have
boomed.
As longstanding members of the perfection caucus, we find it easy to get
worked up if the president doesn’t govern in theprecise ways we would if we sat
in his chair. It’s a natural human reaction to following the news and caring
about your country. With that being said, today’s debate anniversary serves as
a valuable reminder that last year’s election saved America from the
preposterousness and national humiliation of another four years of Democrat
rule. The country might not have survived.
The takeaway? We’re glad we have Donald Trump. We’re sure you are too.
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Videos of the Day
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Harness saves construction worker.
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This Day in History
June 27, 1923: The first successful air-to-air refueling. A DH-4B carrying
Lts. Virgil Hine and Frank W. Seifert passed gasoline through a hose to another
plane flying below, carrying Lts. Lowell H. Smith and John P. Richter. The feat
demonstrated the feasibility of extending flight times by transferring fuel
between aircraft while in the air, paving the way for modern militaries to use
the practice in operations like last weekend’s B-2 bomber attack on Iran. A few
months later, Smith and Richter used the refueling technique to set an
endurance record, staying aloft for 37 hours and 15 minutes.Read more.
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